What Was Stonewall? (What Was?)

by Nico Medina (Author) Jake Murray (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: What Was?
How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America? Find out about the history of LGBTQ rights in this Who HQ title. In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police arrived at the Stonewall Inn's doors and yelled, "Police! We're taking the place!" But the people in this New York City neighborhood bar, members of the LGBTQ community, were tired of being harassed. They rebelled in the streets, turning one moment into a civil rights movement and launching the fight for equality among LGBTQ people in the United States.
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Nico Medina
Nico Medina is the author of Where Is Mount Everest? and Where Is Alcatraz? and three books in the Who Was? series.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781524786007
Lexile Measure
870
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
March 12, 2019
Series
What Was?
BISAC categories
JNF053140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century
JNF053080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | LGBT
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Gay liberation movement
Sexual minorities
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969

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